Scarborough

Now I was always under the impression that Scarborough was a poorer version of Blackpool and that it was a run down seaside town.

You might be wondering if that belief was true. I guess we will never know, because before we got there, a very dense sea mist had rolled in, obscuring everything right up to the windows. It gave the each a very ethereal feeling to it, and it spooked James. I loved it though, it was so different and beautiful, I wish I could have sat on the beach in the fog all day long.

 As you can see, the fog covered most of the town, bar the hilltop. There's not much to do, but we found this amazing mural on one of the walls as we walked past. It seems Scarborough has some soul.

We spent most of the afternoon playing in the arcades, which is a very English thing to do, particularly in regards to the two pence machines.

For anyone thats not familiar, a two pence machine is a big box filled with a sliding platform, and thousands of two pence pieces. The aim is to get as many over the edge as possible, and usually there's extra prizes sat on top of the sea of coins. You drop them onto a moving platform from the top, sides or above, and you hope the coins you put in fall onto the table and knock coins your way. Coins mean prizes!

It's a good way to get rid of all your spare change, or if you're like us, a good way to dispose of a ten pound note. You can imagine how many two pence we got for that! All of the little prizes that dropped out we kept and added them to the collection of the ones we won on the isle of Wight. James is going to give them all to his mum to use as a lucky dip game to raise money for the local scouts group she helps to run. We got some good ones, so there will be some happy kids!